0000000000274201
AUTHOR
R. H. Casper
Precipitation chromatography. III. Optimization of the experimental conditions and determination of the polydispersity of fractions
The influence of the solvent–nonsolvent gradient and the temperature gradient on the efficiency of the precipitation chromatography is investigated with radically and anionically prepared polystyrene samples. Only a combination of both gradients gives optimal effectiveness of the column. The separating power of the column was determined by using mixtures of well defined samples. From the elution curves of the mixtures the nonuniformity Ufr of fractions can be estimated. For fractions of anionically prepared polystyrenes Ufr is on the average 0.001; this value is of the same order of magnitude as the statistical error. These results show that with this chromatographic method it is possible t…
Phase Distribution Chromatography (PDC) of Polystyrene
Abstract Phase distribution chromatography is a new chromatographic method of fractionating polymers. The separation is achieved by partitioning the sample between the solvent and a polymer phase, in the case a noncross-linked polystyrene of very high molecular weight, which is coated as a thin layer on small glass beads. The temperature must be held below the θ-temperature of the sample. The separation increases sharply with decreasing temperature. The theory of this method is presented and compared with experimental results. The agreement is very good.
Phase-distribution chromatography (PDC) of polystyrene
A chromatographic technique is described where the stationary phase is a layer of a very high molecular polystyrene fraction (M = 107) on glass beads (ballotines). The mobile phase is cyclohexane passing the column at a constant temperature below the theta-temperature. A polystyrene sample of sufficiently low molecular weight (M ≤ 106) injected as a small plug at the top of the column is fractionated because the distribution between the mobile and the stationary phase depends on the molecular weight. Since the large molecules preferentially remain in the stationary phase, the smaller molecules leave the column first. The fractionation effect is inverse to that found in GPC experiments. The …